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    What are idle and peak temperatures of your GPU and hard drive?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by paradoxguy, Nov 24, 2010.

  1. paradoxguy

    paradoxguy Notebook Evangelist

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    Ghosthostile sparked my curiosity with his current poll of CPU temperatures--I'm curious of other members' temperatures, both idle and peak, of their GPU and hard drive, along with concomitant room temperature. Please also note GPU and HD make/model.

    Thanks for reading and responding.
     
  2. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    GeForce 9600M GT - GPU idles at ~58-70C. Games at up to 92C. Furmark at 97C. Ambient temperature is ~24C.

    Hard drive idles at <40C. I can't remember, but I have an SSD now which doesn't report a temperature.
     
  3. AboutThreeFitty

    AboutThreeFitty ~350

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    ATi 5650 idles at 49C and tops out at ~80C.

    Kingston SSD idle temperature is 33C and tops out at 40C when gaming.

    Room temperature is at 21C
     
  4. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    SSD temperatures can be recorded? I get the HWMonitor glitch.

    8400M GS 128 MB 260.62 Win 7 x64 Forceware drivers

    Ambient room temperature: 23.5C
    GPU Idle: 36C
    GPU full load: No higher than 60C
     
  5. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Wow. I guess your 8400M GS should be lasting for a long while. If I recall correctly, the compound only starts to change at 65C and higher.
     
  6. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    My Vostro 1500 removable 8400M GS isn't affected by the recall. :D

    That's why I'm upgrading to a 8600M GT card soon
     
  7. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Ooh, that's even better. :cool:
     
  8. AboutThreeFitty

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    What glitch? Reads my Kingston just as any other hard drive.
     
  9. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Probably depends on the model of the SSD.
     
  10. HRK

    HRK Notebook Consultant

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    I think so too. HWMonitor, RealTemp and CDI read my Kingston just fine, but not my Vertex 2. Either 1C or 80C. It's a SF based SSD as you know.
     
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    Yeah I got 1C or 96C with my Agility 2 (SF1200 controller!)
     
  12. City Pig

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    Ambient: ~21C (my guess)

    GPU: 40-55C
    HDD: 30-47C (there are several variables)

    Yes, I know this is absolutely terrible. (Those are idle temps)
     
  13. Bearclaw

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    Ambient about 22-23.

    5870M idles at 42C, tops out around 76 @ 840/1080 clocks.

    CPU i5-430M idles about 37-41, tops around 65.
     
  14. HRK

    HRK Notebook Consultant

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    Room temp: 22C.

    My GTX 260M idles @ 48~52C, 51~53C w/1920x1080 external monitor.

    The highest temp I got while playing MW2: 88C, 93C w/1920x1080 external monitor.

    HDD: WD Scorpio Black idles @ 39C.

    [​IMG]
     
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    Ambient about 22C

    Ati hd4330 - idle 40C, load ~75C

    Toshiba MK5055GSX idles at 36C and goes up to 45C.
     
  16. paradoxguy

    paradoxguy Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks for the responses. I should have mentioned my own temperature data when I initiated this thread. Using HWMonitor:


    HD Idle--37-40C; Peak--45-47C

    GPU Idle--57-60C; Peak--78-82C

    Makes/models in signature below
     
  17. Amnesiac

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    I was under the impression that the dv6 series ran REALLY hot...

    Toshiba A300:

    Ambient - 18C

    GPU:

    Idle - 42C
    Load (Furmark) - 74C
    Load (Gaming) - around 65C

    Hard Drive:

    Idle - 33C
    Load - 54C -_-

    Asus G73JH (Repasted with ICD7):

    Ambient - 18C

    GPU:

    Idle - 47C - 50C (cycling :mad:)
    Load (Furmark) - 84C
    Load (Gaming) - 79C - 82C

    Hard Drive:

    Haven't been bothered to check. Runs cool enough.
     
  18. City Pig

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    My 5650 runs almost as hot as your 5870 (gaming can bring it up to 78C). That would be considered "really hot," would it not? That said, mine seems to be a rare case.
     
  19. Kuu

    Kuu That Quiet Person

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    My room is oddly cold around my desk, only 18c, so these are lower than what I used to see.

    Current average use temps are:
    CPU - 34c
    GPU - 43c
    Internal HD 1/2 - 33/30c
    External eSATA drive - 24c
    As for peaks, CPU and GPU under Intel burn test and Furmark (Ran both at the same time once) and maxed out around 72c +/- 2c.
    My internal hard drives never really go past 42c.

    Totally idle after 5 hours of sitting results in the lowest reading for my cpu being 20c, gpu being ~33c, and I'm pretty sure my external hard drive was room temp cause it goes to sleep after 10 minutes :D
     
  20. Luke.Adams

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    GPU: idle ~44C, peak 61C (9800)
    HDD: idle ~23C, peak 35C (WD Green series)

    But it really depends on the cooling, not just the parts.
     
  21. City Pig

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    My GPU gets hotter than that from streaming videos. :(

    That's it. Next time I'm getting a desktop for gaming and a netbook to take places.
     
  22. lidowxx

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    ambient temp:18-20 C
    GPU(9800M GS) idles 40-45 C peaks 77-79 C
    HDD(Toshiba 7200RPM) idles 24-27 C peaks 35-38 C